Τρίτη 26 Ιουλίου 2011

Scholarships opportunities to cover the admission fee and a travel stipend to attend the Land Ethic Leaders program

Thanks to grants provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the New Mexico McCune Foundation, the Aldo Leopold Foundation is proud to announce two different scholarship opportunities to cover the admission fee and a travel stipend to attend the Land Ethic Leaders program.
1. Student Scholarships
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is sponsoring a total of 12 scholarships for students age 16-21, available for all our summer sessions. You must be in the stated age range to qualify for the student scholarship.
2. Ethnic Diversity Scholarships
The New Mexico McCune Foundation is sponsoring up to 5 scholarships to encourage ethnic diversity in the Albuquerque, New Mexico Session. See application for selection criteria.
Workshop dates, deadlines, and available scholarships:
Rio GrandeAlbuquerque, NM Session
Wednesday and Thursday, July 27 and 28

Scholarships available:

Student (age 16-21) and Ethnic Diversity

Applications due:

Friday, July 8
Awards announced:
Monday, July 11
Shack prairieBaraboo, WI Session
Thursday and Friday, August 25 and 26

Scholarships available:

Student (age 16-21)

Applications due:

Monday, August 1

Awards announced:

Wednesday, August 3
Scholarship expectations
The training schedule will involve two full days of activities based at the Bosque School in New Mexico, or the Leopold Center in Baraboo. You must be able to attend the entire program; partial attendance (i.e., one day only) is not possible. You are responsible for making your own lodging arrangements, though please note that scholarship recipients under age 18 must be able to commute back and forth from their home to the workshop site daily. Student scholarship applicants under age 18 also must have consent from a parent or guardian to participate in the workshop. All scholarship recipients must arrange for their own transportation to get back and forth to the workshop site daily. Scholarships cover the workshop registration fee of $150, plus a travel allowance of up to $200 to help cover lodging and/or mileage costs to get to the workshop site.


Τετάρτη 20 Ιουλίου 2011

Animal Citizens: a one-day symposium on ‘political approaches’ to animal

Animal ethics has provided us with various theories which claim that
animals are the subjects of ‘moral status’.  Whether it be the
utilitarianism of Peter Singer, the natural rights theory of Tom Regan,
the virtue ethics approach of Rosalind Hursthouse, or the caring ethic of
Josephine Donovan, sophisticated analyses have been presented to explain
why animals have moral worth, and to outline our moral obligations to them
as a result.  However, an increasing number of scholars have begun to ask
what we owe to animals as subjects of political status – as members of and
participants in our political communities.  Can, as some have suggested,
we even regard certain non-human animals as ‘citizens’?  And what would
animal citizenship imply for our obligations towards them?  What are the
costs and benefits of taking this political approach to the animal
question?  This one-day symposium brings together academic experts writing
in this field to discuss these, and related, questions.

Confirmed Speakers

Will Kymlicka, Queens University, Ontario
Robert Garner, University of Leicester
Siobhan O’Sullivan, University of Melbourne
Steve Cooke, University of Manchester
Alasdair Cochrane, London School of Economics

Registration

Registration is free, but unfortunately spaces are restricted due to room
size.  To register your interest in attending, please email Alasdair
Cochrane (A..D.Cochrane@lse.ac.uk) by 22nd August.  Confirmation will be
sent shortly after.

Τετάρτη 6 Ιουλίου 2011

CALL FOR PAPERS – Feminist Scholarship on Climate Change

Special Issue in Hypatia on Climate Change
March 15, 2012 submission deadline
Volume 28, Number 3, Summer 2013
Guest Editors: Nancy Tuana and Chris Cuomo
Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy seeks papers for a special issue on Climate Change. We welcome new feminist scholarship on the scientific, ethical, epistemological, economic, and cultural dimensions of current global climate change, as well as case studies that critically engage specific questions in local, regional, national, and/or global contexts. In addition to essays developing feminist analyses of the science, ethics, and politics of climate change, we encourage investigations of the gendered, neo-colonial, and other power-laden frameworks which shape the discourses and power flows that influence various parties’ understandings of and responses to climate change.
There has been a great deal of work in the natural and social sciences on various aspects of climate change, and there is increasing acknowledgement in the literature that extreme weather events and ecological disasters tend to have greater negative impacts on women, girls, and those who lack economic and social power. Nonetheless, little attention has been given to the complex ways in which hegemonic conceptions of gender, race, nation, and knowledge are implicated within institutional frameworks of climate policy, media representations of scientific knowledge, and suggestions of planetary redemption through “eco-engineering,” carbon markets, or profit-generating green technologies.
In addition to critical case studies focused on specific regions or trends, some questions and issues that might be considered in this special issue include (but are not limited to) feminist analyses of the following topics:
  • Geopolitics of climate change treaties and political processes
  • Ethics and politics of approaches to climate justice, including cosmopolitanism, human rights, human security, indigenous rights, and eco-centric perspectives
  • Critical analyses of industrial, scientific, policy and activist discourses
  • Climate change denial and epistemologies of ignorance
  • Intersections and tensions of development ethics and climate ethics
  • Epistemologies and ethics of climate modeling, including economic models
  • Naturalization of fossil fuel dependence and consumerism
  • Climate change and the resurgence of reactionary notions of population control
  • Critical analyses of the influence of popular media, from misinformation to education
Papers should be no more than 8000 words, inclusive of notes and bibliography, prepared for anonymous review, and accompanied by an abstract of no more than 200 words. For details please see Hypatia’s submission guidelines
Please submit your paper to manuscript central. When you submit, make sure to select “Climate Change” as your manuscript type, and also send an email to the guest editors indicating the title of the paper you have submitted: Chris Cuomo: cuomo@uga.edu, Nancy Tuana: ntuana@la.psu.edu

CONFERENCE – “Beyond the Possible”: A conference dedicated to Richard Sylvan’s memory

Richard Sylvan (formerly Routley, 1935 – 1996) was an Australasian philosopher whose work continues to have a major impact in environmental philosophy.  “Beyond the Possible” is a conference dedicated to Sylvan’s memory, to be held at the University of Melbourne, July 27-29 2011.

Full program and location details at: http://sites.google.com/site/btpconference/home

Please let us know (for catering purposes) if you plan to attend: btp.conference@gmail.com

http://sites.google.com/site/btpconference/home

Τρίτη 5 Ιουλίου 2011

Perspectives International Journal of Philosophy-Call for Articles

2nd CFP: Perspectives International Journal of Philosophy, 2012 issue.


Perspectives: International Postgraduate Journal of Philosophy is a peer-
reviewed annual publication operating out of the School of Philosophy at
UCD, Ireland. Perspectives features articles, book reviews and interviews
encompassing a broad range of current issues in philosophy and its related
disciplines.

Call for Articles

The theme of the 2012 issue of Perspectives is ‘Philosophy and the
Environment’. We are seeking articles that reflect current research on
philosophy and the natural environment. We welcome submissions from both the
analytic and continental traditions in philosophy. We equally welcome
submissions from related disciplines (including the human and natural
sciences, literature, art history, culture studies, animal studies and other
fields) seeking to explore the philosophical dimensions of recent research
on environmental themes.

Topics addressed may include (but are not limited to) the following:

Animal Ethics
Animal Philosophy
Animal Rights
Deep Ecology
Ecophilosophy
Embodiment and Nature
Environmental Ethics
Feminism and the Environment
Humanism, Posthumanism, Transhumanism and the Environment
Philosophy and Animal Studies
Philosophy and Biodiversity
Philosophy and Conservation
Philosophy and Ecocriticism
Philosophy and Evolution
Philosophy of Biology
Philosophy of Ecology
Philosophy of Literature and the Environment
Philosophy, Technology and the Environment
Political Philosophy and Nature
Religion, Philosophy and Nature
The Animal Other
The Animal Question

Submissions should be between 5000-7000 words. Please include a brief
abstract (200
words) with keywords. Also include a brief biography for the contributor’s
page, should
your paper be accepted. Make sure to include all relevant contact
information, including a
permanent e-mail address. Please submit two versions of your article, one
version prepared for blind review. The following url provides additional
information on article criteria and style requirements.

http://www.ucd.ie/philosophy/perspectives/resources/instructions_for_authors
_style_guidelines_for_articles.pdf


Contributors are asked to email their submissions to perspectives@ucd.ie

DEADLINE FOR ARTICLE SUBMISSION: 31st July 2011.

Κυριακή 3 Ιουλίου 2011

Νέο βιβλίο για τα μη ανθρώπινα ζώα!

Έλληνες και ξένοι πανεπιστημιακοί, λογοτέχνες και δημοσιογράφοι, άνθρωποι των γραμμάτων και των τεχνών καταθέτουν σκέψεις και απόψεις, αφηγούνται  μικρές ιστορίες και υποστηρίζουν ότι τα ζώα δεν είναι κατώτερα όντα. Αισθάνονται – όπως εμείς – πονούν, αγαπούν, αντιλαμβάνονται, κρίνουν, θυμούνται, διαθέτουν συνείδηση, ικανότητες που δεν έχουμε, έχουν δικαιώματα. Με λογική και συναίσθημα σχολιάζεται η σχέση των ζώων με τον άνθρωπο, η παρουσία τους στον μύθο και το παραμύθι, στην τέχνη και την τεχνολογία, στη θρησκεία και τη φιλοσοφία, και καταγγέλλεται η σκληρότητα με την οποία συχνά αντιμετωπίζονται. Στο βιβλίο αυτό παρουσιάζονται τεκμηριωμένα και με επιχειρήματα τα δικαιώματα των ζώων και τονίζεται ότι είναι καιρός να βάλουμε ένα τέλος στην οίηση που χαρακτηρίζει το ανθρώπινο είδος και στην ανήθικη συμπεριφορά του απέναντι στα ζώα.
 Τα έσοδα από τις πωλήσεις του βιβλίου ΠΕΡΙ ΖΩΩΝ, ΜΕ ΛΟΓΙΚΗ ΚΑΙ ΣΥΝΑΙΣΘΗΜΑ θα διατεθούν για φιλοζωικούς σκοπούς. Στο βιβλίο, μεταξύ άλλων, υπάρχουν κείμενα των Peter Singer, Tom Regan, Steven Best και Dale Jamieson.